steeleye span – female drummer lyrics
i was brought up in yorkshire and when i was sixteen
oh i ran away to london and a soldier i became
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with me fine cap and feather, likewise me rattling drum
they learned me to play upon the rub-a-dub-a-dum
with me gentle waist so slender, me fingers long and small
and to play upon the rub-a-dub the best of them all
and so many were the pranks that i saw among the french
and so boldly did i fight me boys although i’m but a wench
and in b-ttoning up me trousers so often have i smiled
to think i lay with a thousand men and a maiden all the while
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and they never found my secret out until this very hour
when they sent me off to london to keep sentry o’er the tower
when a young girl fell in love with me and she found that i was a maid
she went up to me officer me secret she betrayed
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he unb-ttoned then my red tunic and he found that it was true
‘it’s a shame[, he says, ‘to lose a pretty drummer boy like you]
so now i must return to me mum and dad at home
and along with me bold comrades it’s no longer can i roam
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